Event details

In 2016 the United Nations introduced the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), setting a range of aspirational targets designed to eradicate poverty and encourage sustainable peace across the planet. Gender Equality is, in the words of the UN, ‘crucial to accelerating sustainable development’ and so is perhaps the most fundamental of the SDGs - the lynchpin unifying and underpinning all other goals.

The challenges of achieving the targets posed by the Gender Equality SDG are at their greatest following conflict as States struggle to find an effective means of transition that embrace all corners of society. Ravaged by war, societies face unique challenges in upholding effective participation in society for all genders, ensuring redress for crimes committed (including sexual violence) and building institutions that will promote and maintain gender equality.

This symposium will probe and investigate the unique challenges faced by post-conflict societies in promoting and maintaining Gender Equality as an essential component of the SDGs.

Programme

Confirmed Speakers

María Carolina Melo, National Gender Officer for Colombia, United Nations Development ProgrammeAddressing Gender Equality after the Colombia Conflict: Prospects and Challenges

Frances Guy, Gender Team Leader for the Arab States, United Nations Development Programme: Gender Equality in the Arab Region: The Challenges of Legal Reform

Lorraine Smith van Lin, Post-Conflict Justice Adviser, RedressFinding light at the end of a long tunnel: The challenges and opportunities for repairing the harm suffered by female victims in post-conflict contexts

Jens Iverson, Assistant Professor, Grotius Centre for Legal Studies, University of LeidenGender and Sovereignty: Why Democracies Have an Interest in Promoting Transformative Gender Justice in the Transition from Armed Conflict to Peace

Pamela Abbott, Director of the Centre for Global Development and Professor in the School of Education, University of AberdeenWomen’s Rights and Meeting International Targets: Gender in the (re)Construction of Rwanda after the Genocide against the Tutsi

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